Ansari's
journey to space in 2006 has led her to be immortalized in history, with the
Iranian American entrepreneur also forever going to be remembered as the first
Muslim woman in the world to travel to space.
The world as we know it has recorded only 563 people as having been to
space so far, and that fact alone is enough to understand my excitement at
coming face to face with XPRIZE Foundation CEO Anousheh Ansari -the world’s first female private
space explorer- at the Abundance 360 (A360) Summit in Dubai earlier this year. Ansari’s journey to space in 2006
has led her to be immortalized in history, with the Iranian American an entrepreneur also forever going to be remembered as the first Muslim woman in
the world to travel to space. “Going to space was a dream of mine since I was
very, very young,” Ansari said, as she recounted how she managed to realize
this notable achievement.
Ansari has had a rather circuitous route to get to space. After
migrating to the United States from Iran in 1984 at the age of 16, she went on
to secure an education in electrical engineering (she remembers being one of
the few women in her classes then), following which she started her career at
the now-defunct American telecom firm MCI, which was where she also met her
husband, Hamid.
In 1993, Ansari, along with her husband and brother-in-law Amir, founded Telecom Technologies Inc., a technology provider for telecom companies, which was acquired by Sonus Networks (a global leader in secure and intelligent cloud communications, now called Ribbon Communications) for about US$750 million in 2003. Now, through all of these years, Ansari’s dreams to explore space might have taken a backseat- but they remained in her mind all the same, and it was the sale of her company that allowed her the time to revisit those ambitions.
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